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...monks, in which he describes, among other things, what psychoanalysis told him about himself. He was one of six children of an artillery officer; he says that, he feared his father, and at the same time wanted to emulate him. As he sees it now, when he became a priest he transferred this complex to God. His autoanalytical sermons abound with expressions of his double feeling toward the Creator: "I envy and fear my Father. He is my rival. I want to be like him, but I fear that he does not want me to be like him." Lemercier confesses...
...Chelsea Girls opens silently on the right screen with a blonde cutting her bangs. Five minutes later, the scene on the left screen begins--in the room of a homosexual posturing as a Catholic priest, hearing the confession of some girl. When the reel on one screen runs out, there is silence for a while until the sound-track for the other is tuned up, and some time after that a new scene begins on the first screen. And so it moves through lesbians and junkies and homosexuals lolling on their beds. About halfway through, Warhol switches to color...
Father Quealy, 37, a Roman Cath olic priest for ten years, volunteered for duty as an Army chaplain and was shipped out last January to South Viet Nam. Assigned to the 1st Division, Quealy - against the advice of senior officers at field headquarters in Dau Tieng - insisted on boarding a helicopter of medics and troop reinforcements flying to the relief of the Big Red One's 1st Battalion, under attack in War Zone C northwest of Saigon (see THE WORLD). Landing at the battle site, Father Quealy hurriedly gave last rites to dying soldiers from a platoon...
...philosophy class, bothered still more by his inability to accept natural law-the concept that there are certain God-given laws of behavior known to man by reason alone rather than revela tion. By the end of his sophomore year, Pike had decided that he could not be a priest, and transferred first to U.C.L.A. and then to the University of Southern California to enter law school...
Likewise, the Trinitarian formula, baldly stated, can be impervious to human comprehension, instead of being a meaningful mystery. But not many churchmen are prepared to toss it overboard entirely. The Rev. Lester Kinsolving, an Episcopal priest in California and a young follower of Pike's, finds that "it's logical to me-I say water, steam and ice." Paul Tillich argued that the three-in-one concept was not a quantitative definition of God but a qualitative expression of the processes of divine life...